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Mason Jones

@masonoise.bsky.social
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Startup engineering leader, Infrastructure engineer-type, psych-noise guitarist & experimental musician. www.charnel.com/mason (he/him)

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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh yes, I grew up with these. Love em!
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I keep talking about how that soon to open indie theater near me the Portal is wrapping up its Kickstarter soon, and you should pitch in (more if you're in SF but hey, anywhere really) and among other things I'm glad that in November I just have walk a couple of blocks to see a lot of this.
The iconic image of Chow-Yun Fat in sunglasses and coat lighting a cigarette with a one hundred dollar bill in _A Better Tomorrow_, below a film rep screening listing reading "Full Contact: Hong Kong Action With Chow Yun-Fat, Including A Better Tomorrow, City On Fire, Full Contact, Hard Boiled, The Killer, Tiger on the Beat and More, November 2026."
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And "slowing down" also helps them explain away declining revenues and the slowdown of model progress, which will of course all help their IPO look better.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Gotta go with Coil.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
First Bowie album from which I taped a song off FM radio.
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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Decided to make a dedicated page for this. stopomarchy.neocities.org
stopomarchy.neocities.org
STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
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Sraars @sraars.comrades.social · 09/09/2026
Welp. Time to move away from Digital Ocean in addition to 1Password for funding DHH.
OmARCHe
NEWS
By DHH on September 9, 2026
DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That's a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What an incredible vote of confidence in the beautiful, fun & agentic OS we're building.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Except none of those monopolies is one simply because of the software they offer, nor could anyone realistically move away from them by creating their own software. Wish you were right tho.
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tell us you haven't been in the industry for very long without telling us you haven't been in the industry for very long.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You have your next writing assignment, good sir. Do us proud.
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
If the hubris that lead to security holes and poor engineering of doge/linux did not dissuade your enthusiastic friend, perhaps not supporting the Nazi ideology behind it will: www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-fu…
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DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security”
Jason Meller wrote a security rulebook. I read it. He is in direct violation of it. As CEO of Kolide, Meller published honest.security and reduced it to five tenets on December 8, 2020. The first: “ _The values your organization stands behind should be well-represented in your security program_.” That’s politics at work. The third holds that trust is demonstrated through informed consent and transparency. The fifth holds that people make rational decisions about risk when they are educated and honestly motivated. Then 1Password, whose 2021 round was joined personally by Shopify’s Tobi Lütke and Harley Finkelstein, the executives who platformed Nazi merchandise and seated David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on their board, bought Kolide in February 2024, made Meller VP of Product, and still publishes the document as the guiding principles of its Device Trust product. Houston, we have a problem. DHH published his infamous Nazi screed called “ _As I remember London_ ” on September 15, 2025. The post mourns a London no longer full of “native” British and approves a right-wing Tommy Robinson march promoting white supremacy. Meller answered the criticism of DHH on September 26, 2025 with a photo of a child in a dance costume, back turned to the camera, at the edge of a lifeless/closed private pool. With that he boasted he became a multi-millionaire thanks to Rails, DHH, and the company DHH keeps: “ _Let’s ignore the noise and keep building_.” Source: Twitter He posted that as a director of the Rails Foundation, which DHH chairs. 1Password had taken a board seat in 2024 and Meller filled it with such questionable “values”. Again, this was the guy who wrote a rulebook saying work is political, where trust is earned. Fast forward to July 12, 2026, DHH published “ _The will to power will return_.” He tries to gin up a “loss” narrative to evoke FUD, claiming the West has lost its will, weak men have made hard times, a hero generation will end the managed decline, and the last such Crisis ended in total war, so do not bet against another. That title is Nietzsche’s phrase fraudulently repackaged by his antisemitic sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche: she made a posthumous compilation cut from his notebooks into a racist doctrine of strength over weakness, which was adopted by the Nazis. It has been treated by scholars as hers rather than the philosopher’s since the Colli-Montinari edition. This isn’t obscure history. Hitler ran PR at her Weimar archive in 1934, photographed at the door taking her hands, and photographed inside contemplating the bust of her brother. Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche happily welcomes Hitler at the door of the Nietzsche-Archiv, Weimar, 1934, offering him a warm smile and both hands. Source: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Kunstarchiv, http://www.gnm.de/museum/abteilungen-anlaufstellen/deutsches-kunstarchiv/ Days later DHH published the word _remigration_ , Martin Sellner’s Potsdam term for forced deportation of settled populations, documented here at the time, because it’s Nazi propaganda worth identifying as such. On July 21, 2026, DHH doubled-down on all this Nazism with “ _Wolves, sheep, and gypsies_.” He describes Romani people in Copenhagen parks beside a wolf population and states the remedy for one is shooting and the remedy for the other is deportation. Make no mistake. DHH pushes the dehumanization of an ethnic group in preparation for its removal on force of death. It is the rhetoric that preceded the Porajmos. DHH then complained publicly when Claude refused to translate his Nazi propaganda into Italian. On August 31, 2026, DHH named 1Password a Distinguished Corporate Patron of his Omacom Foundation, $100,000 a year for three years, in a quid pro quo he described the same afternoon as proof open source need not be a “commune.” Source: Twitter “Commune” is the Nazi dog-whistle of being anti-communist, the antisemitic project from the start: it’s how the NSDAP fused Jews and the labor movement into being their “one” enemy of “Jewish Bolshevism”. Rosenberg’s 1936 Nuremberg speech made the equation explicit. Seven weeks after the will-to-power essay, DHH spoke of a commune as his enemy on the day he took 1Password’s money. 1Password is the first corporate patron he does not own, and the independence ends there. Lütke, on 1Password’s cap table since 2021, pledged $1 million on August 21. His portfolio company followed in ten days. The quid was the default install slot 1Password had held since Omakub. DHH thanked Meller by name for leading it. Meller had already explained the bond the evening before: DHH pitched him one-on-one for two hours, and he switched to Mac for Rails and DHH seventeen years ago and is switching platforms again for him now. Source: Twitter Then he called DHH’s past year a masterclass in “force of will”. Nine days before the deportation post, DHH’s own headline had announced the return of the “will to power”, the phrase identified above. Meller’s words echo the DHH Nazi title, seven weeks on. Jason Meller, VP of Product at 1Password, August 30, 2026. “Force of will” repeats the title DHH gave his July 12 essay, nine days before the Romani post. The 1935 film title was Triumph of the Will. On August 31 Meller produced the metric that became the company’s defense: Omarchy is the third largest Linux distribution among active 1Password users and first on weekends. DHH called it crazy. A fan called it his cocaine energy. You know, weekend stuff. Source: Twitter When employees and customers objected, this data point was cited. CEO David Faugno told staff the money goes to a foundation and not a person (e.g. to a NSDAP not to Hitler himself), that 1Password rejects DHH’s exclusionary views without offering proof, and that Omarchy is a top Linux platform for its users. Cofounder Roustem Karimov, in a Slack message obtained by The Verge, accused objecting staff of trying to setup a moral monopoly and ostracizing colleagues by rejecting Nazism. Now back to those tenets. **Tenet one.** Values the organization stands behind, represented in the security program. The CEO says the company rejects DHH’s views, yet show us where. The VP of Product funds them, celebrates them, and sits on a board DHH chairs. One of those is the value the organization stands behind. The money identifies which. **Tenet three.** Trust through informed consent and transparency. The pledge was announced by DHH, on DHH’s platform, with the objections handled afterward in private Slack. Employees learned of the affiliation the way everyone else did. Consent was never sought. Transparency arrived through a leak. **Tenet five.** People make rational decisions when educated and honestly motivated. The employees and customers who objected read the two posts and decided. Meller’s word for that decision in 2025 was noise. Karimov’s word in 2026 was moral monopoly. The doctrine says respect the informed decision. The practice says discredit it. Meller’s method is the same on both dates. He never engages the text. He recodes the objection as noise or as shots taken, then answers with a number: his net worth in 2025, weekend install counts in 2026. Honest Security was written against exactly that move. Its whole argument is that a security team which answers human objections with telemetry has already lost. Every director of the Rails Foundation, every patron of Omacom, and every executive at 1Password now owns Nazi propaganda. But Meller is different from everyone, because that guy owns them twice. He brokered the money and he wrote a standard that says Meller can’t be trusted.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's worth noting though that submitting the form consents to receiving spam emails (with no option otherwise) since email is required; and if you put phone in (not required) you consent to getting text messages. Important yet a terrible decision on their part.
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Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
my audio recording of an exceptionally memorable and gorgeously unsettling concert by Ak'Chamel the Giver of Illness at Acme Records in Milwaukee in June 2023 is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available in both mp3 and lossless file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/08/akch...
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Ak'Chamel the Giver of Illness at Acme Records in Milwaukee on June 8, 2023
I've been frightened at a concert twice in my life. The first was in 1987 while contemplating my fragile mortality in a sea of shifting huma...
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And any founder who chooses to take money from a16z should think carefully about the message that sends. The company you keep, and all that...
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well, that would look nice on the shelves.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader praises Flock cameras: "This is what the Emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth."
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What a fun thread of alternate book covers.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Izumi Suzuki was an amazing writer -- recent translations published in English are worth anyone's time, check them out!
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In celebration of ALA’s 150th anniversary, the iconic David Bowie READ poster, first released in 1987, is back in print. An avid reader and library fan, Bowie was one of the first celebrities to pose for the READ campaign. Limited run. Get yours while supplies last: bit.ly/4qgL3dK 📚💙
A young David Bowie wearing a black and white varsity jacket and jeans, is holding "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky while mid-leap. The word "READ" is prominently displayed at the top. Text reads "David Bowie for America's Libraries.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Elric of Melniboné. (the Chronicles of Amber suggestion is right on too)
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Quick day-before reminder for SF folks of this cool noontime show tomorrow. Stop by and treat your ears to some noise and your stomach to some vegan pancakes!
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Your track is really mesmerizing, and it sneaks up on me like I fall off a cliff at the end. Nice one.
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birdspanker @birdspanker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes is happening next Saturday, which means the weekend will be action-packed for me: Melvins/Tomahawk Friday, G'waffle Saturday afternoon, Matmos Saturday night. @drewdaniel.bsky.social @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social Coincidence or fate? Maybe you can make it again?
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S Sat_Aug 15, 2026 —Blowout! 12:00 PM- 2pm SHARP
John Bischoff
Mason Jones
Anti-Ear (Tx)
Fletcher Pratt
Famous Techno
Earth Jerks
55 Taylor St. SF,CA
Free GOURMET pancakes with entrance fee
Get coffee next door at the Yemeni cafe~
6/10$
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow, I hadn't heard about this film! I've read the novella it's based on, which was pretty wonderful, and Dafoe never disappoints. Something to look forward to, for sure.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hey I’ve got a track on this one too! (as Terminal Stress) One minute, easy-peasy.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 06/08/2026
A new chapter has begun in Winnipeg’s literary landscape with the opening of science fiction and fantasy bookstore Other Places Books.
winnipegfreepress.com
Out of this world
New sci-fi/fantasy bookstore a welcome addition
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
San Francisco area noiseheads! I'm happy to be joining an amazing lineup with John Bischoff, Anti-Ear, Fletcher Pratt, Famous Techno, and Earth Jerks at the next Noise Pancakes, 8/15! Come join us, you know you want to.
Surreal flyer for Godwaffle Noise Pancakes, Saturday August 15, 12:00pm - 2pm sharp, at 55 Taylor St nr Market and Powell BART. Free vegan pancakes with entrance fee $6/10. Performing: John Bischoff, Mason Jones, Anti-Ear (TX), Fletcher Pratt, Famous Techno, Earth Jerks.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is great news except now I have to wait patiently for it.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Prisoner is possibly my vote for the best TV series ever made. Definitely one of my top favorites. The final episode is an absolute wtf.
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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com · 27/07/2026
A rare and deeply revealing conversation with Makoto Kubota about Les Rallizes Dénudés, Takashi Mizutani, the Japanese psychedelic underground and the unfinished fourth album that became ‘Disque 4’. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/07/les-...
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Les Rallizes Dénudés and Japan’s Psychedelic Underground: Makoto Kubota on Takashi Mizutani, ‘Disque 4’ and the Lost Years - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine
For most of their existence, the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés left remarkably little official evidence behind them. Their music circulated through copied tapes, bootlegs and incomplete live reco...
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Perhaps you can be quietly persuasive and get them to move to a platform that doesn't support Andrew Tate and other terrible people? Boycotting Substack is a helpful thing to do.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Gary K. Wolf •  
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mineko from Angel'in Heavy Syrup is back! With a band featuring folks like Kawabata, Suhara, Koizumi, and more. Check out the newly-released live recording from the debut show, out now: kawabata-makoto.bandcamp.com/album/itakur...
kawabata-makoto.bandcamp.com
Itakura Mineko & Band masters Live in Osaka 2026, by Itakura Mineko & Band masters
9 track album
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What a great poster.
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 07/07/2026
If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Given the limited time he also doesn't touch on the fact that LLMs will, in cases, emit verbatim excerpts from the texts they were trained on, an interesting side effect. But I don't want to overindex on the copyright issues, since they're one small part of many, many AI problems.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I love Cory, but I don't entirely agree with him on this one. It's not merely "counting". It's more akin to having a giant university photocopy millions of books for free for their students (leaving aside that education is awesome, of course). It is illegal duplication.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
These people are allowing themselves to be lied to. “It’s just impossible to take time off right now" is only true if you allow it to be. Live your life, don't throw it away chasing illusions.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A wonderful piece, thank you. I was fortunate to know him back in the GigaOm and early True days, and you captured his spirit beautifully.
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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 27/06/2026
daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
daringfireball.net
Om
This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/06/2026
This is Noah Webster's definition of 'cat' from his 1828 dictionary. Don't worry. We like cats more than he did.

the cat-bloc
CAT, n. [Ir. cat; Fr. chat; D. kat; Dan. CAT-HOOK kat; Sw. katt; G. kater, or katze; L. catus; Vulgar Greek, xaris, or yaros; It. gatto; CAT-MINT Port. and Sp. gato; Lap. id.; Pol. kot; peta, so cal Russ. kots; Turkish keti; W. cath; Corn. CAT'S'-PAW kath; Arm. gaz or kaz; Basque catua.
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In Ar. kitta, is a male cat.
Class Gd.
perceived, surface of turn in the
a tackle on 2. A dupe;
uses.
CAT-SALT granulated leach-brine CAT SILVE
No. 56.] 1. A name applied to certain species of car- nivorous quadrupeds, of the genus Felis. The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful. It is kept in houses, chiefly for the purpose of catching rats and CAT-TAIL, mice. The wild cat is much larger than the domestic cat. It is a strong, ferocious ani- mal, living in the forest, and very des- tructive to poultry and lambs.
The wild cat of Europe is of the same
reed, of the stance of tresses, &c 2. A substan-
&c.
species with the domestic cat; the cata-CATABAP" mount, of N. America, is much larger and a distinct species.
Ed. Encyc.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The smaller streets in the Mission, North Beach, and Chinatown are some of my favorite walking in the city. Lovely architecture, art, and atmosphere.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My partner is a published author, part of class action suits on this, so I'm very aware of the status of what's settled vs not. I'm also quite aware that there were, 100% proven, copyright violations. Legally and ethically/morally, the AI companies are on the wrong side, plain and simple.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh, they were more than that. And of course they had refreshers and more to look forward to, but the packages offered were too good to pass up. It was pretty clearly a bad miscalculation by the company.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sure, but the structure of this offering made it such that their most experienced people had packages that they rationally couldn’t pass up. Purposely making it too compelling for some of your best, most senior people to stay is perhaps not logical.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I know some very senior people who happily took the offer there as well. Agreed, it's a pretty strange decision for a company to make.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Gotta say, glossing over the fact that the models were trained by stealing the creations of humans by just saying "Technology is a tool. What matters is what we do with it." is...not compelling. What we do with it is not all that matters. Not even close.
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Mason Jones @masonoise.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Has he never heard of Lester Bangs? Christgau? Greg Tate? Hua Hsu (where's Fantano's Pulitzer, eh)? I've never even heard of Fantano until now and, well, he's free to be very wrong in public, I suppose.
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